i host my own server, but the best i found - about a year ago when i looked into this - was a norwegian company called runbox http://www.runbox.com/ http://www.

i host my own server, but the best i found - about a year ago when i looked into this - was a norwegian company called runbox http://www.runbox.com/ http://www.runbox.com/ their support was also friendly, helpful, and technically clued up when i discussed some issues (i didn't go with them in the end because i've hosted my own email before, know how to do it, and decided it wasn't worth paying anyone else). [edit: to be clear, not only do i have more faith in the impartiality and openness of a scandinavian govt than the usa, there's an advantage in simply not using a host in your own country, imho. also, running your own server isn't hard. with opensuse, for example, it's pretty much just a case of (1) clicking the right options in yast and (2) configuring getmail to pull your email from your isp. although to get something anywhere close to gmail in functionality you also need to understand (and use) procmail and mairix. then you need a client - i use mutt over ssh, but you can also install a webmail soln like squirrelmail if you want.]